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What’s up with the Crabb Family canceling the Blur the Lines tour after only a few showings with low-low-low attendance? I have no idea. But it does occur to moi that a tour pegged to challenging traditional Christian musical boundaries might have tried to do so outside a four- or five-state southern region. Never fear, […]

I had a chance to catch Gaither’s The Best of Anthony Burger on Saturday night. The most striking thing about it was how much the interview with AB turned into a pretext for Gaither to talk and talk and talk. But anyway, watching the old clips of some of AB’s big moments I … or […]

Obviously the new avfl format is up and going. By necessity it will be a phased roll out: the archives are only beginning to be migrated from the old pages and URLs, so expect those to be spotty. The old search page and archives will remain open during the migration.
Some new features and other stuff […]

Until a few years ago, when I moved far enough way from work that I started spending a substantial amount of time in the car each day, I hadn’t really had a chance to keep up with […]

I was piano shopping the other day. My first time. Who knew piano salesmen were so much like used-car dealers? At one point, my guy actually said to me (this was on a Sunday afternoon), “it’s so […]

Since I stand (not unjustly) accused of meandering loquaciously to the point (and of using words like “loquaciously”), I’ll cut to the chase: when do press releases describing tragedy, grave illness, near-misses, and tabloidesque […]

I’ve held off saying anything the new feature in the SN that David Bruce Murray aptly described as “Roy Pauley vs. the World,” hoping that it would return this month and I could get a better sense of how it will play out. Alas, that was not to be. So I’ll have to go on […]

Nevermind the assumption in this month’s SN article on politics and patriotism in sg that gospel music is synonymous with a particular conservative and/or fundamentalist ideological point of view (this pov may be dominant but not to the exclusion of all others). And never mind that three outta four of the guys interviewed fell back […]

So Dino is coming to Pianorama. Get out your bedazzlers, kids, and don’t forget the Aquanet! Seriously. Who knew Clarke Beasley was a Dino fan? Better yet, who knew southern gospel music fans were Dino fans? Or maybe they aren’t. And maybe they don’t have to be. I really don’t know, but it’s an odd […]

Thanks for your patience the last few days as I’ve tried out some new options for the site. And thanks for your feedback. Comments are running 2-1 in favor of the old (that is “current”) way. Literally. Two people wrote to say they liked the old way. One to say blogger ain’t bad. I know […]